Posts Tagged ‘swans’
ripples and reflections
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged autumn, Mystic River, nature, nature photography, Photography, swans, water on November 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »
back at swan lake iris gardens
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged beauty, birds, colors, Inspiration, nature, Photography, Swan Lake Iris Gardens, swans, travel, water, waterfowl on October 10, 2016| 2 Comments »
When in Sumter, South Carolina, I missed the irises in bloom but the swans were in full force. The city’s Swan Lake Iris Gardens is the only public park in the U.S. to feature all eight swan species. The sun shone bright this particular day as this trio floated by.
Learn more about the park via this link: http://www.sumtersc.gov/swan-lake-iris-gardens
the black swan and his muses
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Inspiration, landscape, nature, Photography, South Carolina, Sumter, Swan Lake, swans, travel on October 3, 2016| 1 Comment »
in the swan lake gardens
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged beauty, dragonflies, insects, Inspiration, landscape, nature, nature photography, Photography, South Carolina, spiders, Sumter, swans, travel, waterfowl on October 2, 2016| 3 Comments »
into the mystic
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged abstract, animals, beauty, Inspiration, Mystic River, nature, Photography, rivers, Somerville, swans, urban landscape on May 22, 2014| 6 Comments »
Yesterday, I scrambled down to the water’s edge before realizing that may not have been the smartest move in the shoes I was wearing. Cool Spring winds arose. The temperature dropped. I was freezing. And yet …
it truly felt like the right place to stand, for as long as I could bear, so that I might see the beauty floating by in the Mystic.
swans at rest in st. stephen’s green
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged birds, colors, dublin, feathers, Inspiration, ireland, myths, nature, Photography, st. stephen's green, storytelling, swans, travel, white, wildlife, William Butler Yeats on November 9, 2013| 3 Comments »
Okay, I have to admit, not only the mallards paused to let me snap a photo. As I watched the swans’ feathers rustling in the winds whipping through St. Stephen’s Green, I thought of the Greek myth Leda and the Swan. Only later as I walked through the National Library of Ireland’s exhibit on William Butler Yeats did I learn that Yeats had published a highly regarded sonnet on the subject in 1924.
a single swan’s feather
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged birds, colors, dublin, feathers, Inspiration, ireland, nature, phototgraphy, swans, travel, water, white on November 5, 2013| 4 Comments »
Words + Images 